Winter Is Coming (2025)
All Elite Wrestling two-part television special
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2025 Winter Is Coming was a two-part professional wrestling television special produced by the American company All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the sixth annual Winter Is Coming and took place on December 10 and 13, 2025, at the Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia, United States, and the Utilita Arena in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, respectively, encompassing the respective broadcasts of Wednesday Night Dynamite and Saturday Night Collision. Dynamite aired live on TBS on December 10 while Collision aired live on TNT on December 13, with both programs simulcast on HBO Max, marking the first Winter Is Coming to stream on HBO Max.
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (Dec. 13)
Utilita Arena (Cardiff)
| Winter Is Coming | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Promotional poster for the Dynamite broadcast featuring Darby Allin, Willow Nightingale, and Jon Moxley | |||
| Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||
| Date | December 10 and 13, 2025 | ||
| City | College Park, Georgia (Dec. 10) Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (Dec. 13) | ||
| Venue | Gateway Center Arena (College Park) Utilita Arena (Cardiff) | ||
| Attendance | 3,012 (Dynamite)[1] 4,106 (Collision)[2] | ||
| Event chronology | |||
| |||
| AEW Dynamite special episodes chronology | |||
| |||
| AEW Collision special episodes chronology | |||
| |||
Ten matches were contested at the event, evenly divided between the two broadcasts; the second night also had three additional dark matches taped for a special one-night only episode of Dark titled "Stocking Stiffer". In the main event of Dynamite, Samoa Joe defeated Eddie Kingston to retain the AEW World Championship. This broadcast also saw the crowning of the inaugural AEW Women's World Tag Team Champions, in which The Babes of Wrath (Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale) defeated Timeless Love Bombs ("Timeless" Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa) in a tournament final. In the main event of Collision, Mark Briscoe defeated Daniel Garcia to retain the AEW TNT Championship. This broadcast also marked the first edition of the event to be held outside the United States.
Production
Background
Winter Is Coming is an annual professional wrestling television special held in December by the American company All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2020. The title "Winter Is Coming" is derived from Game of Thrones, a television series from HBO, which is part of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), which also includes AEW broadcast partners TBS and TNT.[3]
On November 24, 2025, it was announced that the sixth Winter Is Coming would be held on December 10, 2025, at the Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia and air live as Wednesday Night Dynamite, simulcast on TBS and HBO Max.[4] It was later revealed that the special would also encompass Saturday Night Collision, held at Utilita Arena in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom on December 13, simulcast live on TNT and HBO Max. The Collision broadcast marked the first Winter Is Coming special to be held outside the United States. This also reduced Winter Is Coming to a two-part special as the prior two years had aired in three parts including Friday Night Rampage, which was canceled at the end of 2024. This also marked the first Winter Is Coming to stream on HBO Max, following AEW's updated broadcast deal with WBD that began earlier that year in January.[5] Just prior to the live taping of Collision, AEW president Tony Khan announced a one-night only return of AEW's former YouTube program Dark as a special holiday episode titled "Stocking Stuffer", with three dark matches taped after the live broadcast for the special that aired on December 16.[6]
Storylines
Winter Is Coming featured 10 professional wrestling matches, evenly divided across its two broadcasts, that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.[7] Storylines were produced on AEW's weekly television programs, Dynamite and Collision.
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[8] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Babes of Wrath (Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale) defeated Timeless Love Bombs ("Timeless" Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa) by pinfall | Tournament final tag team match for the inaugural AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship[9] | 13:52 | ||
| 2 | Kazuchika Okada defeated "Jungle" Jack Perry by pinfall | AEW Continental Classic Gold League match | 13:14 | ||
| 3 | "Hangman" Adam Page and Swerve Strickland (with Prince Nana) defeated The Opps (Katsuyori Shibata and Powerhouse Hobbs) by pinfall | Tornado tag team match | 7:11 | ||
| 4 | "Speedball" Mike Bailey defeated Kyle Fletcher by pinfall | AEW Continental Classic Gold League match | 19:31 | ||
| 5 | Samoa Joe (c) (with Hook) defeated Eddie Kingston by submission | Singles match for the AEW World Championship | 13:02 | ||
| |||||
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[10] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swerve Strickland defeated Josh Alexander by pinfall | Singles match | 13:25 | ||
| 2 | Kris Statlander and Jamie Hayter defeated Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye Blue) by pinfall | Tag team match | 10:15 | ||
| 3 | Claudio Castagnoli vs. Konosuke Takeshita ended in a time limit draw | AEW Continental Classic Blue League match | 20:00 | ||
| 4 | "Speedball" Mike Bailey defeated Kevin Knight by pinfall | AEW Continental Classic Gold League match | 13:00 | ||
| 5 | Mark Briscoe (c) defeated Daniel Garcia by pinfall | Singles match for the AEW TNT Championship | 15:05 | ||
| |||||
Inaugural AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship Tournament
| 1st Round Fright Night Dynamite October 29, 2025 Dynamite November 5–19, 2025 Collision November 19, 2025 | Semifinals Dynamite: Thanksgiving Eve November 26, 2025 Dynamite December 3, 2025 | Final Dynamite: Winter Is Coming December 10, 2025 | |||||||||
| Queen Aminata and Jamie Hayter[a] | 10:00[11] | ||||||||||
| Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye Blue) | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Sisters of Sin | 11:43[12] | ||||||||||
| The Babes of Wrath | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| The Babes of Wrath (Harley Cameron and Willow Nightingale) | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Mercedes Moné and Athena | 12:33[13] | ||||||||||
| The Babes of Wrath | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Timeless Love Bombs | 13:52[14] | ||||||||||
| Alex Windsor and Riho | 12:54[15] | ||||||||||
| Timeless Love Bombs ("Timeless" Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa) | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Timeless Love Bombs[b] | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Megan Bayne and Marina Shafir | 10:10[17] | ||||||||||
| Megan Bayne and Marina Shafir[c] | Submission | ||||||||||
| TayJay (Tay Melo and Anna Jay) | 9:05[15] | ||||||||||
- Aminata and Hayter won a four-way tag team match on the October 22, 2025, episode of Dynamite to earn the right to select their first round opponents.
- Timeless Love Bombs won a four-way tag team match against the other semifinalists at Full Gear to earn the right to select the stipulation for their semifinals match. They chose to have a Hardcore Holiday Deathmatch.[16]
- Shafir replaced Penelope Ford as Bayne's partner due to injury.